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124 CMO / CARE DELIVERY The 49 Hospitals Facing the Highest Readmission Penalties From Medicare By Heather Punke A s part of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Medicare will cut payments to 2,597 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for fiscal year 2017. CMS released the results from the fih year of the program in August. Forty-nine hospitals face the maximum 3 percent cut in payment for every Medicare patient stay from Oct. 1, 2016, through Sept. 30, 2017. ose hospitals are listed below, grouped by state. Note: Information was pulled from a spread- sheet from Kaiser Health News. Arkansas 1. Baptist Health Medical Center-Hot Springs County (Malvern) 2. Chambers Memorial Hospital (Danville) 3. Physicians' Specialty Hospital (Fayetteville) Arizona 4. Arizona Orthopedic and Surgical Specialty Hospital (Chandler) California 5. Oroville (Calif.) Hospital Florida 6. Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus (Hialeah) 7. Palm Bay (Fla.) Hospital 8. St. Lucie Medical Center (Port Saint Lucie) Illinois 9. Richland Memorial Hospital (Olney) Indiana 10. Kentuckiana Medical Center (Clarksville) Kentucky 11. Greenview Regional Hospital (Bowling Green) 12. Harlan (Ky.) ARH Hospital 13. Hazard (Ky.) ARH Regional Medical Center 14. Monroe County Medical Center (Tompkinsville) 15. Saint Joseph East (Lexington) 16. Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center (South Williamson) 17. Whitesburg (Ky.) ARH Hospital Louisiana 18. Byrd Regional Hospital (Leesville) 19. Franklin Medical Center (Winnsboro) 20. Lafayette (La.) General Surgical Hospital 21. Lake Area Medical Center (Lake Charles) North Carolina 22. Northern Hospital of Surry County (Mount Airy) 23. Wilkes Regional Medical Center (North Wilkesboro) New Jersey 24. St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (Paterson) New York 25. Montefiore New Rochelle (N.Y.) Hospital 26. Queens Hospital Center (Jamaica) 27. St. Charles Hospital (Port Jefferson) 28. St. John's Episcopal Hospital at South Shore (Far Rockaway) Ohio 29. Kings Daughters Medical Center Ohio (Portsmouth) Oklahoma 30. St. John Broken Arrow (Okla.) Pennsylvania 31. Edgewood Surgical Hospital (Transfer) 32. Physicians Care Surgical Hospital (Royersford) 33. WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital (York) South Carolina 34. Beaufort (S.C.) County Memorial Hospital Tennessee 35. Henry County Medical Center (Paris) 36. Livingston (Tenn.) Regional Hospital 37. Perry Community Hospital (Linden) Texas 38. Arise Austin (Texas) Medical Center 39. Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital at Sherman (Texas) 40. Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood (Texas) 41. South Texas Surgical Hospital (Corpus Christi) 42. Starr County Memorial Hospital (Rio Grande City) 43. Sugar Land (Texas) Surgical Hospital 44. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake (Texas) Virginia 45. Chesapeake (Va.) General Hospital 46. Fauquier Hospital (Warrenton) 47. Reston (Va.) Hospital Center 48. UVA Culpeper (Va.) Hospital West Virginia 49. Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital (Weston) n